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Sivakasi tragedy: Police trying to trace unit owner

Five people were arrested on Thursday in connection with the devastating fire at a cracker manufacturing unit at Mudhalipatti near Sivakasi, even as the toll mounted to 39 with three more persons succumbing to burns. The arrested were four people who had taken the Omshakthi fireworks factory complex, where the fire broke out, on lease and its foreman, police said.